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Diane Taylor

Membership level: ARTIST

About the Artist

When I first began many years ago, a degree in German somewhat limited my job possibilities. In the end, I spent a little over 20 years working for German and Swiss entities related to space policy and space science, ending with a year and a half at the International Dark-sky Association in Tucson, Arizona. Glass has always interested me. In 2002 after trying stained glass and lampworking, I found fusing – and my passion. While I began by making jewelry, I’m now working on larger items: bowls, plates, framed pieces.... I love to play with colors and geometric patterns while maintaining a simplicity and elegance, and sometimes whimsy. The Sonoran desert, where I was born and raised, is one of my favorite themes. Leaves fascinate me, as do faces. Dark skies and rockets, based on my work experience, also provide themes. I tend to look at the world, whether it’s the transit of Venus through a telescope or a flowering palo verde tree, in terms of “how can I show that in glass?” I have work in galleries and stores in Tucson, AZ; Tubac, AZ, and Richmond, VA.

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Transit of Venus

Exploring the Unknown

Space Dust

About the International Association of Astronomical Artists

The IAAA is the world’s only guild of artists dedicated to creating images of space. We paint, draw, sculpt, blow glass, and move pixels to show galaxies, stars, planets, moons, anywhere that the imagination can go, but a camera cannot (yet!). Join now!